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Gentleman's Agreement. Dorothy McGuire, Gregory Peck and John Garfield in a powerful polemic against anti-Semitism in the U.S. (TIME...
...Zanuck made Agreement his "personal production" (i.e., his bid for the 1947 Academy Award) and gave it everything-notably Moss Hart, who has written a first-rate scenario, and Elia Kazan, who has richly fulfilled his high directorial promise of Boomerang! Kazan's sure hand has bottled John Garfield's carbonated talents into a clear, constrained performance as the hero's Jewish friend; he has massaged Gregory Peck's normally musclebound manner into a good piece of acting as the journalist hero; and he has guided Dorothy McGuire's considerable talents through an adroitly banked...
Body & Soul. John Garfield and Lilli Palmer in an exciting prizefight picture (TIME...
Body and Soul. John Garfield and Lilli Palmer in an exciting prizefight picture (TIME...
Several of the performances are first-rate. Canada Lee plays with dignity and fervor one of the few thoroughly unpatronizing screen roles ever given a Negro. Lilli Palmer is a sensitive and lovely actress. John Garfield, having dropped some of his Dead End mannerisms, gives a good performance that is as hard and simple as a rock...